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Open Education 2017

OpenEd17: The 14th Annual Open Education Conference
October 11 – 13, 2017 :: Anaheim, CA

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Ali Versluis

University of Guelph
Open Educational Resources Librarian
Guelph, ON

Ali Versluis (Ver-slew-is) (she / hers) is an Open Educational Resources Librarian at the University of Guelph. A strong believer in the importance of solidarity and collective action, she strives to incorporate anti-racist, feminist, and worker-focused principles into all aspects of her work. Ali has served as an active troublemaker (union representative) on the University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA) since 2017.

8:30am PDT

Welcome by Dr. Raúl Rodríguez, Chancellor, Rancho Santiago Community College District Royal Ballroom Keynote Address: Ryan Merkley Royal BallroomRyan Merkley

9:15am PDT

Keynote Panel: Cherylee Kushida and Jodi Coffman Royal Ballroomjodi coffman • Cherylee Kushida

10:00am PDT

Break Royal Ballroom

10:30am PDT

Is a course fee a game changer for sustaining and scaling institutional textbook replacement initiatives? Royal C - FBrian Lindshield International Student Engagement with Open Textbooks: A Canadian Perspective Terrace A - CJulian Prior • Lindsay Tripp

11:00am PDT

Organizational Innovations to Open Pedagogy Terrace D - FSusan Glassett Farrelly • Kyle Morgan • Cyril Oberlander How the Sausage Gets Made: Building State-Wide Support for Open Education Initiatives Royal C - FBob Butterfield • Sarah Faye Cohen • Teri Gallaway • Glenda Thornton • Anita Walz Collaborating with Students on OER Advocacy GrenadaNicole Allen • Katie Steen • Kaitlyn Vitez • Brady Yano

11:30am PDT

Teaching Naked Behind Bars: Exploring the Empowerment of Needs-Based, Technologically Fluid, Open-Education Course Development in Prisons ValenciaZendina Mostert Mostert Launching an OER Degree: Interim Findings from ATD's OER Degree Initiative Terrace A - CRebecca Griffiths • Richard Sebastian

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Royal Ballroom

1:00pm PDT

Sustaining an OER Degree: The Z Degree Turns 3 Royal C - FDaniel DeMarte • Linda Williams The Open Textbook Network Vision GrenadaDavid Ernst

1:30pm PDT

Aiming for Equity: Ensuring OER doesn’t exacerbate existing achievement gaps MadridErika Aparaka • Francesca Carpenter • Manuela Ekowo • Teresa Mooney • Ethan Senack Content Camp: Ohio State's Collaborative, Open Test Bank Pilot GrenadaAlexis Duffy • Ashley Miller Complementary and Necessarily Bundled: Leveraging Partnerships to Bring Open Pedagogy to Scale ValenciaSarah Faye Cohen • Amy Hofer • Michelle Reed • Quill West

2:00pm PDT

Through the Valley of the Shadow of Creative Commons: Converting a Composition II Class to OER (Faculty & Librarian Collaboration) ImperialTina Buck • Carrie Gits

2:30pm PDT

Break Royal Ballroom

3:00pm PDT

Collaborate and divide 2: A second year of cross-country sharing Royal A - BBob Casper • Kirsten Dean • Jonathan Lashley • Rob Nyland • Amber Sherman • Andrew Wesolek UnCommon Women - the women in the commons GrenadaFrancesca Carpenter • Sarah Faye Cohen • Amanda Coolidge • Kelsey Merkley Secrets of an OER Champion ValenciaLinda Williams The Critical Role of Faculty in Growing Your OER Initiative ImperialJody Carson • Sue Tashjian

3:30pm PDT

Is the price still right? A continued evaluation of open vs traditional textbooks on student performance Terrace A - CTessamae Endes • Veronica Howard From Seeds to Flowers: Growing our garden of OER courses to fulfill the ATD grant BarcelonaRob Booth • Christopher Hauser • Eugene Jars • Jan Kempster

4:00pm PDT

Being True To The 5Rs: Publishing OER That Are Easy To Reuse And Remix MadridCody Taylor Community + a plan = 18,000+ new students impacted in one year Royal A - BJody Carson • Nicole Finkbeiner • Regina Gong • Kathy Labadorf • Sue Tashjian What Did Jane Think? Faculty Perceptions of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Open Textbooks & Implications for Authors & Publishers Terrace A - COlga Belikov • David Ernst • Merinda McLure Around the World with OER: Sharing Meaning Cross-Culturally GrenadaTutaleni I. Asino • Ava Chen

5:00pm PDT

Evening Reception Grand Ballroom A

8:30am PDT

Assessing the Impact of Open Pedagogy on Student Skills Mastery and Perception of Relevance Terrace D - FMatthew Bloom Leveraging Open Environments and Individual Passion to Make Progress Outside of Institutions MadridCarrie Nelson • Steel Wagstaff Why We Share: Tapping Into Faculty's Stories of Going Open ValenciaErin Davis

9:00am PDT

How Does OER Adoption Impact Classroom Teaching and Learning? Terrace D - FAmanda Folk • Shanna Jaggars • Marcos Rivera OER, Copyright, & Faculty: Are Academic Librarians Qualified to Support this Triptych? ValenciaLindsey Gumb

9:45am PDT

Table 16 - Learn First: OER, the College's Strategic Plan, and Community Royal BallroomRobin DeRosa • Jim Luke

10:15am PDT

Table 15 - You Oughta Know: Faculty Strategies for Growing OER Royal BallroomVera Kennedy Tackling the Transition to Open Education: Increasing Z-degrees within Guided Pathways Terrace A - CChristine Conner • Kari Richards • Stephanie Throne Table 24 - Degrees of social inclusion: Emerging insights from the ROER4D project Royal BallroomCheryl Hodgkinson-Williams • Henry Trotter Collaboration and Contrast: How University of Hawaii librarians collaborate to promote OER across contrasting campuses and cultures ValenciaWayde Oshiro • Sunyeen Pai

11:00am PDT

Table 13 - Adjunct faculty: essential participants in OER adoption and use Royal BallroomJon Iuzzini • Richard Sebastian

11:30am PDT

Table 3 - Walking the Walk for Open Pedagogy: Community Design of a Shared Open Educational Resource about Scholarly Communication for Librarians and Learners Royal BallroomJosh Bolick • Maria Bonn • Will Cross Table 21 - A Pressbooks Vision for Open Textbooks Royal BallroomHugh McGuire

12:00pm PDT

Unconference Orientation Royal BallroomDavid Wiley

12:35pm PDT

Unconference Time Royal Ballroom

10:30am PDT

Moving from Affordable to Open: Struggles and Successes BarcelonaJaime Hannans • Jacob Jenkins • Jill Leafstedt

11:00am PDT

OER Ambassadors: Empowering Faculty to Support Faculty in the Adoption of OER Royal A - BGavin Deare • Heidi Fridriksson Pressbooks as a 'Platform': Publishing Open Texts which Feature Interaction, Annotation, Learning Analytics and more ImperialHugh McGuire • Steel Wagstaff

11:30am PDT

Convos, comix, and creative pedagogues: make things for/in/through your contexts? ValenciaKin Lane • Daniel Lynds Modeling the Open Textbook Toolkit: Sharing Expertise that Promotes Creation of OERs ImperialWill Cross • Erica Hayes • Mira Waller

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Royal Ballroom

1:00pm PDT

Unleashing Z Monster: Maybe the Future is Not So Scary Royal C - FAaron Knight • Stephen Levey • Nathan Smith • Amy Tan You've Saved $175 Million - So What? ValenciaLauri Aesoph • Nicole Finkbeiner • Jeff Gallant • Kathy Labadorf • Rahim Rajan

1:30pm PDT

OER Allies — Assemble! Identifying & Recruiting Stakeholders for OER Initiatives Terrace D - FRebel Cummings-Sauls • Matt Ruen • Jeremy Smith

2:00pm PDT

The Ingredients of OER Scalability: Purpose, Faculty Leaders, Financial Sustainability, and Faculty-centered Processes Royal A - BJames Boldman • Adam Vorderstrasse OER in the DR: The Disciplinary Repository as a Tool for Open Education ImperialNicky Agate

2:30pm PDT

Break Royal Ballroom

3:00pm PDT

'What Would You Stand on a Rock For?' Open Education Practices to Invite Student Voice and Thank Equity and Diversity Advocates ValenciaChristie Fierro • Quill West

3:30pm PDT

How can we destroy the open education movement? Conversations about ethics. ValenciaKaren Cangialosi • Jenny Darrow • Robin DeRosa • Gill Green • Christina Hendricks • Rajiv Jhangiani • Jamison Miller • Rosario Passos • Tara Robertson • Scott Robison